说“巴”

Explanation of the Pictographic Character "巴"

本文以认定甲骨文■、■等字形为"巴"字作为前提,结合古代巴人生存的地理环境,从语言文字角度考察了"巴"作为方国、部族名的得名理据,认为"巴"作为方国、部族名正是得名于该部族人们的一种行为特征——行山爬坡,行水淌河时伏身爬行的状态,简言之,巴之为言爬也。这一观点还需要有历史文献和考古学、人类学、民族学等领域的研究成果作支撑,限于篇幅,笔者将另文讨论。

This paper, by identifying the pictographic character of ＂ 巴＂ in the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells and considering the geographical environment in which the ancient Ba people lived, makes a textual research from the linguistic perspective to verify that the character ＂ 巴＂ is named after a dependency or tribe name just because of the tribal people＇s a behavior - the manner of lowering their bodies and crawling when they were climbing mountains and crossing rivers. In short, ＂ 巴＂ means climbing. Of course, such a view also needs to be further strengthened with more historical documents and the research results of archeology, anthropology, ethnology and other fields.